The seat of the US House Speaker stands empty as the House of Representatives continues voting for new speaker at the US Capitol in Washington, DC, January 4, 2023. The new Republican-led US House of Representatives was engulfed in crisis for a second day running Wednesday as a fresh round of...
Tunas are displayed as wholesale sellers and buyers attend the first tuna auction of the New Year at Toyosu fish market in Tokyo on January 5, 2023. (Richard A. Brooks / AFP) TOKYO, Japan – The top-selling tuna at Tokyo's traditional New Year auction sold for more than $270,000 on Thursday,...
VATICAN CITY, Holy See – With the death of Benedict XVI, Pope Francis enters a new phase of his papacy free from the constraints of co-existing with a predecessor, but conservative criticism of his reforms may not end. For the first time since his 2013 election, the Argentine pontiff is...
US Republican Representative from Florida Matt Gaetz speaks with lawmakers as the US House of Representatives convenes for the 118th Congress at the US Capitol in Washington, DC, January 3, 2023. The new US Congress was thrown into chaos on its very first day as rebel right-wing Republicans moved...
PARIS, France – International measures on travelers from China will likely have little effect on containing Covid, health experts said Tuesday, pointing to a surging variant in the United States that may pose a larger threat. AFP/File More than a dozen countries have imposed testing...
CAIRO, Egypt – Egypt announced Monday the recovery of a sarcophagus lid dating back nearly 2,700 years that it said had been smuggled out and put on display at a museum in the United States. Mostafa Waziri, the head of Egypt’s Supreme Council of Antiquities, uses a magnifying glass to inspect...
Patients with Covid-19 are pictured in beds at Tangshan Gongren Hospital in China's northeastern city of Tangshan on December 30, 2022. (Noel Celis / AFP) BEIJING, China – China is experiencing a huge Covid-19 surge after years of hardline containment restrictions were dismantled last month....
PARIS, France – Nearly 1,700 journalists have been killed worldwide over the past 20 years, an average of more than 80 a year, according to an analysis published by Reporters Without Borders. Mexican journalist Rodolfo Montes delivers a speech during a demonstration held by Mexican...
PARIS, France – The true global death toll of Covid-19 remains difficult to nail down three years after the first case was detected, though experts agree there have been far more fatalities than officially reported. Patient beds in Beijing stadium. China could see over 1 million Covid deaths...
BRASÃLIA, Brazil – Brazil's leftist icon Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva returns triumphant to the presidency Sunday after years out in the cold, with plans for a spectacular inauguration amid ultra-tight security. Some 300,000 revelers and more than a dozen heads of state and government are...
Photo: Shutterstock NEW YORK, United States – New York's first legal recreational marijuana dispensary opened on Thursday in the heart of Manhattan. More than 100 people crowded into the dispensary in New York City's East Village, run by the nonprofit Housing Works, a group dedicated to...
Aung San Suu Kyi (AFP/File) NAYPYIDAW, Myanmar – A Myanmar junta court jailed ousted civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi for seven years for corruption on Friday, a legal source told AFP, ending the 18-month trial of the Nobel laureate. Suu Kyi was sentenced to seven years on five counts of...
